Written emergency plan.
(a)A certified center must have a written emergency plan…#
(a) A certified center must have a written emergency plan for emergencies that require evacuation, sheltering, or other protection of children, such as fire, natural disaster, intruder, or other threatening situation that may pose a health or safety hazard to children. The plan must be written on a form developed by the commissioner and reviewed and updated at least once each calendar year. The annual review of the emergency plan must be documented.
(b)The plan must include:#
(b) The plan must include:
(1) procedures for an evacuation, relocation, shelter-in-place, or lockdown;
(2) a designated relocation site and evacuation route;
(3) procedures for notifying a child's parent or legal guardian of the relocation and reunification with families;
(4) accommodations for a child with a disability or a chronic medical condition;
(5) procedures for storing a child's medically necessary medicine that facilitates easy removal during an evacuation or relocation;
(6) procedures for continuing operations in the period during and after a crisis; deleted text begin and deleted text end
(7) procedures for communicating with local emergency management officials, law enforcement officials, or other appropriate state or local authorities deleted text begin . deleted text end new text begin ; and new text end
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